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Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] Representing taxable freight charges in an Invoice
G. Ken Holman wrote: > At 2010-10-29 09:54 +1100, Tim Anderson wrote: >> Also, whats the rationale behind including TaxCategory in >> AllowanceCharge but not on InvoiceLine? >> On InvoiceLine it looks like it must be specified via the >> TaxSubtotal, requiring elements to be duplicated. > The structure supports a total tax for the line item plus a breakdown > of how that tax was calculated. In my jurisdiction there used to be > PST and GST (provincial sales tax and goods and services tax), so > there would be a total tax and a breakdown of the two components. Now > that there is only HST, there is both the total and a one-item > breakdown, just as above. The type of tax is described in the breakdown. > > Remember that in UBL the recipient must not do any calculations on the > values received: the UBL instance conveys both the components of a > total and the total itself. The recipient should find *everything* > they need in the instance without doing any arithmetic. > Does this apply to orders? The order LineItem just specifies a tax total without describing how it was arrived at. Or is this supposed to be inferred from the customer's PartyTaxScheme? -Tim
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